The starting point of this route is the bus station in Cusco to Santiago . Open from early wake up with the city and quickly becomes a hotbed of ticket sales , drinks and some food to cope with a journey that is expected long . Ben- Hur , South Forest and Ampay are the names of the various bus companies that make the journey to Santa Maria. The bus smells like corn, freshly baked bread or stuffed hot pepper . The old men chew coca , women come up with all kinds of packages and children are scared with every curve of the port of Abra Malaga. After the stop in Ollantaytambo, bus stands on a path caressed by fear. Zigzag , is a way to avoid the rainy season from December to April, the constant landslides. The descent , once the summit at 4.350m , extends sinuously between villages isolated by fog. Adrenaline is triggered and there who dare to make the downhill biking as part of the program offered by various travel agencies .

After fivehours we reachSantaMariawhilethe buscontinuedto Quillabamba,hislast stop.Depending on the timeand desire, you canspend the nighthere orcontinueto SantaTeresais beingbetmosttravelers.

Cusco, one of the most touristic cities of South America, was the capital of the Inca Empire, an important cultural center of the Andes, Navel of the World, cultural center and axis of the Inca religious cult, and nowadays Archaeological Capital of America and Cultural Heritage of Humanity; many attractions to describe and perhaps little time to getting to ...read more (+)